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By Mayibongwe Maqhina 
7h ago
Cape Town – The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has explained the so-called “hands of god” where student scholarship applications disappeared and there was no explanation of how they got lost in the system.
The “hands of god” issue was brought up by Nehawu when he brought charges against the NFSAS and its administrator, Randall Carolissen.
Reporting to the higher education portfolio committee on Friday, COO Nthuseng Mphahlele said there were 28,000 scholarship applications that were marked as withdrawn by the system.
Mphahlele said that when the root cause was analyzed, the system did not remove the duplicates, but rather removed all the applications.
He said that the system was fixed and one of the corresponding applications was reinstalled.
Mphahlele said that there was a trace for each of the applications and that the committee should examine it.
He also said that when one of the matching duplicates was reset, the system indicated that the students removed 2,000.
“The audit shows that students are withdrawing them on 2020 applications,” said Mphahlele.
When the issue and the acquisition of student laptops were raised during Covid-19, when the National Union of Health, Education and Allied Workers (Nehawu) rejected the meeting last Friday, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande understood that it meant an interference from your office on NSFAS Affairs.
The committee chairman, Philly Mapulane, had explained that “God’s hands” did not refer to interference in acquisitions.
“It’s something we come to know when we interact with Nehawu. It’s something that refers to a situation where student applications for NSFAS get lost in the system and there is no explanation of how they get lost, ”he said at the time.
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